[Darren69]

Originally Posted by Flip

What Utopia says is absolutely correct but of course back then they were never known as 'naked roadsters' as almost all bikes back then had no fairings.

As for the original Monster thing- the story I always heard was that Galluzzi was using what was essentially a parts bin unfaired 888 cobbled together to commute to work on and his little boy said it looked like a monster.

That's what I heard too, its in the Monster Bible, he cobbled together a bike from whatever bits he could find around the factory, in order to make a bike to commute to work on, 888 frame and engine and a round headlight from an old bevel etc.

Management saw him parking it up one day and liked what he had created and asked him to design a production version for them.